The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06

those girls soon gave me to understand that L
needn't trouble myself and they walked
around me with as much indifference as ii /
didn't live here at all. Well they have gone
TO Florida and tho next thing know viii be
writing very aticctionate letters homo and
mention that they arc out of money. These
stray chickens always come home to roost.
| wonder how much money Mrs Arp has got,
and where she keeps il. I'm going to rum
mage around her bureau and hiding-places
some of these days while She is gone. She
never asks me for moncy-that is, for herself
but she always has it. | borrow from horSome
times when get rs poor as Lazarus. Every
now and then | hand her five or ten to keep
for me, but | never call for it; and the boys
give her some ever and anon. Last night she
asked me to change half dollar for her, and
gave her quarter and gold piece under pre-
tcnce that that it was another quarter, She
never said nightingale never but that
gold piece has gone where the woodbine twin
9th Maybe it is casting bread upon the waters
and it will return TO me after many days-yes,
after very many days. A man oughtent TO
burden his wife with gratitude. 1t is rather
humiliating for proud-spirited woman like
Mrs. Arp, who wears, number two
shoe and steps like II deer, to have to
ask her lord for money or even to hint that
she would like to have some. lie ought to an
ticipate her wants and do il in such sly care
less way that makes honors easy. Give her
your vest to sew ON Il button and leave ten
dollar bill in the pocket Maybe she will ind
it and take care of il for YOU
think hear forty men say well, all that
4 lie, but il amt
didn't finish mp my Alabama trip found
Greenyile and Evergreen, and Troy aud
Union Springs 70 be lively prosperous towns.
At Grecuylle | saw moro cedar wood piled
up ior shipment than l thought was in the
world. There was SeNenty-iiNe thousand dol
lars worth upon tho yard and it goes north
every day and more comes IN to take It's place.
Ii is shipped TO make pencils and brings forty
cents cubic foot. | saw stocks that squared
tweuty-Soyon inchos Mt the big end and wero
thirty feet long. This cedar forest Is
eight miles away and beats gold mine But
il viii soon be gone Just like our pine forests
are going. IL looks like using up the capital
stock instead Of the interest Troy is a terlni-
nal point the end of n railroad, and They viii
keep il SO II they can. 1t gives them terrific
ry-lotS of it., and their trade is enormous for
the size OF the town. An that region is
known as tho white mans country. White
labor makes the cotton-why it is so | do not
know, Tor along the same parallels in western
Alabama, there are seven negroes 10 one white
perSon--while here there are about seven
whites TO one negro. ! met M Quad (Mr.
Lewis at Troy. and his beautiful niece l
like thom both very much and wish that Mrs.
Arp could see them and talk 10 them awhile
maVhe She would rclent-mayhe she would
don't know. when l read Mr.. Thurman
violent assault upon Henry II, jackson was
indignant, and cavortcd around
tho room and used language
upon him. Mrs, Arp was Esewing away and
hnmming little tune and after l had eX-
ploacd myself, she said. Il always told You
That northern democrat was no botter than a
northern republican. 1t is all ior the spoils--
all for the spoils.'
AZ Union Springs l met that grand and
genial gentleman, Bishop WimUr-the hest
tyne al Christian culture and Refinement. \
mutual friend told me that the bishop was at
tending "a conyOcatioN mp north ana onc N SAi
some OF his northern irieudstwitted him pleas
.nitlv about ihc late rebellion. he stood brC
for awhile and then took the offensive an,
s4il: "NVell. grant that you whipped us, and
now II NOu WON'T cat 0'au with luo Will givs
vou "A oouundramn OF course thCy promised
81 to'a lln So 50 ahead ana h'
snid "Tel me why thc cyaleGcrates Wcr'
Ike lNaiusc' when they had givei
ID up DC said, "hocauso they were licked by
dors." Whom thC laugh had subsidized one q
thcm said, "Wcll. bishop l am little surpris
Ga shat yoa should come MP here to associate
with those dogs" 'Oh,' said he, "yNU know